Samendra Sherchan

Biography:

Samendra Sherchan, Ph.D., M.S., serves as a director for the Center of Research Excellence in Wastewater-Based Epidemiology and the NSF-funded NRT ACCESS program. His research interests include climate change and health impacts, infectious disease epidemiology, environmental health microbiology, water quality, water treatment, water reuse, emerging pathogens, sanitation, and hygiene in developing countries. He currently serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Water and Health and BMC Infectious Diseases. He is also on the editorial boards of the scientific journals American Chemical Society Engineering Science & Technology Water, Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, and Science of the Total Environment. Sherchan holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biology, and a doctoral degree in environmental health from the University of Arizona.